Anthony Liguori wrote:
That has the very nice side effect of allowing you to edit the command line with a text editor provided you don't cross the sector boundary. Filling with spaces would be pretty nice.
You must have a very capable editor, if you can edit multi-gigabyte files ;) -- these days most editors load everything into RAM.
(and don't forget to select overwrite mode -- actually the non-aligned case is more editor friendly)